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Is Mary ever short for Margaret?

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RStar

RStar Report 28 Aug 2008 15:31

My heads spinning with one Welsh family.

Mistycat

Mistycat Report 28 Aug 2008 15:36

My mum had two friend's both called Margaret...

One I called Auntie Mary...the other I called Auntie Peggy...so maybe yes...might just have been in our family though!!

Misty

PS...not Welsh....

Ericthered

Ericthered Report 28 Aug 2008 15:38

Not in my experience.............

RStar

RStar Report 28 Aug 2008 15:54

Thankyou Mistycat.

RStar

RStar Report 28 Aug 2008 16:55

Annie, thats a possible. She doesnt seem to have a middle name, BUT of course, she may have had one. Thankyou.

mgnv

mgnv Report 28 Aug 2008 20:48

If Margaret is abbreviated as Margt with a small t in a sort of superscript position, there's a 50-50 chance Ancestry will mistranscribe it as Mary.

MaryfromItaly

MaryfromItaly Report 28 Aug 2008 22:21

Mary is *not* a standard abbreviation for Margaret, but families come up with all sorts of weird nicknames.

Eileen

Eileen Report 29 Aug 2008 00:04


Margaret is usually pet named to Meg, Meggie, Peg and Peggy.........also Daisy as for the flower Marguerite which looks like a daisy............
In Scotland there are a lot of Helen-Marys, and they usually end up as Molly, although Molly seems to occur as a name in its own right now...........

Nickydownsouth

Nickydownsouth Report 29 Aug 2008 00:08

My grandmothers oldest sister was Margaret on her birth cert in 1869, later called Mary, and in her latter years Polly.


Nicky

Researching:
Furniss/Furness in Lancashire,Critchett in Devon and London, Keemish/Camish/ Kemish from Hampshire then Cambridge, Copper and Godden in Kent, Spink/Spynk in Norfolk and Cambridge